1 It was the first coin to use a 12-sided shape, and was worth one 80th of a pound. 2  It replaced the older silver threepenny bit, often used as a prize in Christmas puddings. 3  A silver threepence is still manufactured in very small numbers by the Royal Mint for inclusion in sets of Maundy Money.mage caption The Royal Mint is introducing the new coin as it believes 3% of existing Â£1 coins are fake. A new Â£1 coin, billed by the Royal Mint as the most secure coin in the world, is to be introduced in 2017.
The official language spoken in the Dominican Republic is Spanish. However, dialects are spoken across the country. The local dialect of the Dominican Republic is called Dominican Spanish and has some African influences. Moreover, it has borrowed vocabularies from the Arawak language.
The majority of Dominicans reside in the Dominican Republic, although there is also a large Dominican diaspora, mainly in the United States (also in Spain and Puerto Rico to a lesser extent).The population of the Dominican Republic in 2007 was estimated by the United Nations at 9,760,000.he culture of the Dominican Republic, like its Caribbean neighbors, is a blend of the cultures of the European colonists, African slaves, and Taino taÃ­no. Natives, spanish also known As (Castellano) castilian is the official. language